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Plant Details

Accepted name: 
Picrasma excelsa (Sw.) Planch. [Simaroubaceae]
Source: 
World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant: 
Plants of the World Online
Non-scientific name: Class of name: Medicinal source:
bitter wood Other Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
bitter-ash Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bitterved Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bitterwood Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
bois noyer Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jamaica quassia Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
jamaica quassiawood Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jamaican quassia Other Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
kuntze Other Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
peste à poux Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
picrasma Other Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
quassia Other Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
quassia amara Other U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
quassia da jamaica Other Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
quassia de la jamaique Other Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
quassia de surinam Other Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
surinam quassia Other U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)